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Electric Car

Manganese Could Be the Secret Behind Truly Mass-Market EVs

Wanted: Abundant transition metal to electrify the automobile for the global mainstream.

Hydrogen Production

Researchers Develop Non-Metallic Photocatalyst Capable of Producing Green Hydrogen

South Korean researchers have developed a non-metallic photocatalyst that can use sunlight to produce green hydrogen which does not emit any kind of greenhouse …

Meta Signs 156-MW PPA on EDP Renewables Texas Solar Project

Facebook parent company Meta has signed a power purchase agreement (PPA) for 156 MW of the 240-MW Cattlemen Solar Park in Milam County, Texas.

Carbon Neutral

Meta Advances Sustainability Goal with Solar Farm, Net-Zero Data Center

Meta, the parent company of Facebook and Instagram, said it is advancing its clean energy and sustainability goals with plans for a net-zero data center in Miss…

Coal-Fired Power Plants

Australia’s Coal Conundrum: Economy, Climate at Odds

Coal has long been a lifeblood for Australia. The country is the world’s largest exporter of metallurgical coal used to make steel, and it’s the second-larges…

Hydrogen Fuel Cell

Nickel Cells Sell More-Affordable Hydrogen Power

New fuel cell efficiently generates electricity without costly precious-metal catalysts.

Philippines

Solar Philippines Unit Accelerates Timetable for 4GW Development

Solar Philippines Nueva Ecija Corporation (SPNEC), a subsidiary of Solar Philippines, is working to speed up its timetable for the implementation of some 4-giga…

Coal Production

Bens Creek Group Provides Coal Production and Delivery Update

Bens Creek, the owner of a recently re-opened metallurgical coal mine in North America supplying the steel industry, has announced an update on coal production …

Coal Price

Bens Creek up and Running with Met Coal Sales From North American Mine

Bens Creek Group PLC has fulfilled its first two purchase orders for metallurgical coal from Integrity Coal Sales Inc.

Electric Car

Why Russia’s Invasion and Surge in Oil and Metals Prices is Bad News for EVs

The cost of filling up the tank of an internal combustion engine car will make people think about going electric.

South Korea

Generating Carbon-Free Fuels

A metal foam could underpin a low-cost method for generating carbon-free fuels, researchers from KAUST have shown.

Ukraine Crisis Has Rewired Thinking on Future of Energy for Europe

Effects of sanctions, informal bans, war disruption and Russian counter-measures risks supplies of fossil fuels, fertilisers, food, aluminium, metals used in ba…

Wind Power Project

Meta to Feed off 225MW Iowa Wind

Great Pathfinder project will supply a data centre campus planned for expansion in Altoona

Energy Storage Battery

Sun Metals Taps Gravity Energy Storage Tech in Shift to “Green Zinc”

Korea Zinc’s bid to make its Australian operations some of the greenest and most sustainable in the world continue to gather pace in 2022, off the back of a de…

Rooftop PV System

Metal Roof Manufacturer Adds Solar to Commercial Rooftop

McElroy Metal, based in Bossier City, Louisiana, has now added solar panels to four of its manufacturing sites.